‘1000 Hindu devotees missing from Maha Kumbh’, claims Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that about 1,000 Hindu devotees who had gone to the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj were missing. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister asked what the budget was allocated by the Centre for the Maha Kumbh.

''Can anyone imagine that the chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh were just deciding where the vehicles will be parked. There were a number of IPS officials who were stopping people from going for the 'snan', saying that they do not have the capacity to facilitate them," PTI quoted Yadav as saying outside the Parliament premises.

"People were being stopped at the borders. The Centre would have given a budget for the Maha Kumbh to the state government -- that should be mentioned. At a time when pages of history are being turned, the biggest loss of lives has been of Hindu devotees," he said.